New Report on Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Methods in Materials Science

Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Methods: in Materials Science and Engineering" to their offering.

Written by the leading experts in computational materials science, this handy reference concisely reviews the most important aspects of plasticity modeling: constitutive laws, phase transformations, texture methods, continuum approaches and damage mechanisms. As a result, it provides the knowledge needed to avoid failures in critical systems under mechanical load.

With its various application examples to micro- and macrostructure mechanics, this is an invaluable resource for mechanical engineers as well as for researchers wanting to improve on this method and extend its outreach.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Introduction.
2. Concise Historical Overview.
3. Flow Kinematics.
4. Constitutive Models.
5. Displacive Phase Transformations in CPFE Modeling.
6. Homogenization Methods in CPFE Analysis.
7. Crystal Plasticity FE Approaches to Local Damage Analysis.
8. Numerical Aspects Associated with the CPFE Method.
9. Experimental Validation and Application.
10. Challenges.
11. Conclusions